| 28 July 2007 - Vintage
aircraft flyin to Silverstone |
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| The Vintage aircraft club was
invited by Silverstone to flyin to their Classic car weekend - reliving
racing's golden years. |
| We were invited to flyin
before 10:30 so it was an early start for us. We made our earliest
take off time of 8:45am and headed North. |
| Amazingly the visibility was
very good and we soon saw the familiar landmarks. Sadly we also saw
some of the floods that have been in the news recently. As we flew
along the River Thames we saw a caravan park that had succumbed to the
water |
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| and even worse areas |
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| Calling up Silverstone we
understood they were using runway 24 with a left hand circuit. It
may have been an early start for us, but Silverstone was already buzzing. |
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| Joining the circuit overhead
we found we were the only ones in the circuit so were able to get a good
view of the field. We had not landed here before. |
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| After safely landing we were
directed through the trees to part of a disused runway and invited to
park. We had previously been asked to send some details about the
plane and this was typed up and placed on heavy card and placed in front
of the plane for all to read. |
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| Since we were the first
Vintage aeroplane to arrive we were given "pole" position.
We were very pleased we had spent so much time cleaning AY earlier in the
week. |
| We headed off to see some of
the cars, far too many to consider showing all but Martin particularly
liked the D type Jaguar |
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| and all men love the red
Ferraris |
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| We then watched some of the
races, it was lovely to see all types of car drive on the track during the
day. |
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| We had lunch and headed back
to AY where we spent the rest of the day pottering up the lines of 27
aeroplanes and chatting or sitting watching the cars race by. |
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| We were wind burnt, tired but
agreed it was quite an experience coming to Silverstone. Our thanks
to Paul for organising not only the venue but for breaking the VAC Rain
curse. A great day. |
